The evening world. Newspaper, August 25, 1913, Page 12

rf ¢ ° ' { ! | Nees we ; aw HAD GANG 10 WORK MANY"EASY MARKS Lawyer for the Heggies, Who Lent $30,000 to Accused Man, Hints at Conspiracy. | HEARING | | a i WEDNESDAY. | Kursteiner, Who Also Fur- nished $12,000, Believes His Friend Is Honest. It fa now reported to attorneys in the Gdheperé case that Mire. Florence Hes- gle and her husband, who formerly lived at Ithaca, N. Y., but whe are now Stopping with F. J. Peters at No, 172 West Seventy-seventh street, are not the only ones who loaned money to him Ddelleving they were helping him to ctaim an estate vaiued at $190,00 that Is tle@ up in the courte at Washington, D. C. Curtin Kursteiner of Kursteiner & Co, No. 11 sjroadway, says he loaned Bcheperd £12,000, and three other per- sons, whose names could not be learned, telephoned Abner Werblin, attorney for Mre. Heggie, whose ofc oat No, 1 Cedar street, that they had a! Woaned Scheperd money for the same purpose, Mre. Hogaie and her hunband assert that they put up $9,000, believing they were helping a person to claim that which rightfully belonged to him. The transactions covered a period of tw yeare, and now Mrs. Hoggie finds her- eelf @ physical wreck and the family estate vanished. She refuses to discuss the affair except to her Iawyer. OTHERS TELEPHONE SAME WARD LUCK STORY TO WERBLIN “% palleve Scheperd and his associnten’ have worked their game on a number of persone within the past two years,” eald 2p. Werblin to an Evening World reporter to-day. ‘Three persons have telephoned me this morning that they boaned Gchaperd money on the pretext that he had an estate tied up in Wash- ington and needed money to fight his ease in the courts.” “How did Hoheperd get intimate enough with Mra. Hegsie to borrow money from her In such large sums?” tbe reporter uked. ‘Through his system,” the attorney “And what was his system?” “That te just what we are working on now. Wait till the hearing Wednesday and it will all be revealed, 1 can not Glecuss the case further no’ Mr. .Werblin expects to establish proof toshow that Bcheperd hada well orsan- fea@ clan that has secured large sume ‘of mongy from several different persons. heperd $10,000 in a cated thelr stock in an, Ithaca concern and pawned their jewel alge money to help Scheperd. got wigrted and by putting up more money they believed they would get :t all bask,” said Mr. Werblin. Mow Mrs. Hoggie met Scheperd may be an Important factor in revealing the ideatity of the accomplices. A Miss Mary Bilen McDevitt, who claimed ty bee etep-sister, of Boheperd, met Mra. wu and went out to lunch with her. They became friends and in the course ef time Mise MoDevitt introduced her step-brother, Scheperd. He revealed his @ilemma to them and they advanced 040,090 at once to help him out. They loaned, him $20,000 more at various times within the past two years, they assert Mise McDevitt, it Is claimed, has mar- led a man in Philadelphia, whose ad- dreas ls not known. KURSTEINER COMES TO DE- ENGE OF ACCUSED MAN. + | pelleve Scheperd in an honest man,” gi Curtia Kursteiner at No. 11 Broad- way this morning. “It is true I loaned him money and I believe it is safe 1 think the Heggles have got alarmed too eto. ‘I have known Scheperd over two ie my friend and I do not think he te misrepresenting his claim te an estate of $18,000 in Washington. A have not seen any direct evidence that he has a valid claim to 1. had confidence in the man and have It, I think he le being badly teented.""” @cheperd is held at the Jefferson Mar- ket police station in default of 2,50 bond for his appearance in Jefferson Market Court Wednesday for a pr ry to ‘He is forty-three years old and # his address ‘as No. 17 Enst Tenth | —_——{- —— ACTS QUEERLY; IS JAILED. ‘William Arista, a Japaneme butler, will be arraigned to-night before Jus- tice Sprague of Lawrence to explain his conduct toward Margeret Daviss, @ Pretty English housemald employed by A.'L. Brianger, theatrical man. The Jap vent a letter to ihe maid last week inelesing = .22 calibre cartridge and feme mysterious words intimating his desire to die with and for her. They had previously been employed in a pri- ‘vate house in West End avenue, and the Jap’s attentions to the girl had re- @ulted in his dismissal, ‘Berday ‘Arieta appeared at the Er- bog house and asked for the girl. pe butler told him to make himself at 7 on the porch and then calle? the % rat police. A fully loaded re- velver was found in his pocket. § he could give no sati @ecount at. the station, and he was * _ Ww, - THINKS SGHEPARD {The Evening World’s and Welfare Association’s THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1918. * City-Wide Series of Better Babies’ Contests JOHN POYLE SMO8: AEAVE Entries Still Being Made) ce'steres it not apvear with their at Warren Goddard to wrx Cisrence murs, Wrenident of House, Greenwich the Little Mothers’ Ald Associath House and Other Points, Where the Contests Will Continue Into Septem- ber. Babies’ breakfasts are being very care- fully prepared this morning in the trict Immediately north and south of Fourteenth street, between Fifth ave- nue and the Kant River, Many small children will spend long hours to-day out in the open air, Comfortable naps will be on the programme, too, and early bed times. For scores of the mothers whose bables were examined last week 'in the Better Babies’ Contest given by ‘The Evening World and the Babies Being Primed for Final Test | in Contest for City’s Prize Youngster f the cash prizes ning World inary judgment a Latlos w Arthur G. Dr. Itoger ja Hancock and other at physle ans, A few mothers who to the country. Hut the competition ha proved @ record one and Mrs, Burne ts delighted with the results, PRAISE FOR THE WORK OF THE EVENING WORLD. “The Lvening World has done o wondérful work,” he sald, ear- nestly. “I certainly appreciate it, and I know from what I heard the mothers say that they are aeeply @rateful. They have been espe- cially pleased at the full reports of ‘the lectures which Dr. Staford MoLean and other physicians gave us, and at the signed articles by doctors which contain so many helpful hints for the care of chil- | outgrown, ferent limate different viron| tain, Tt ts of solld br nine feet ar d fie wet Ve ways eir j high, and ts the wo Wileur Walter, n ey ion te nent ‘ " i or pea’ ia e,e Ja pip of Rodin, the 6 Krenet ESET OREN ST TS ET the judg we found at | “ n : = Wa ar center % | Scientific Prevention immediate need of attention that we sent the mothers to the Babies’ Hospital. Other childven were sent to the children's ward of the Poly- clynio Mospital. Whi yeician examined @ baby and some- thing wrong with it, he immediate- ly told the moth*r and advieed her what to “For instance, the throat glands of ‘one almont perfect baby were diseased. ‘The mother had never guessed i, until told her. Another baby ‘aa weak lunge, and the doctor Id the mother that she must te very much on her guard against tuberculoals. Several of the litte ones examined had hearts. mothers were “i not tot two hard and the weakness would probably be eauti W:-J-CONDO: 1O MOS. aT 26 JONES ST so many women have eaid . ‘IE know my baby In not perfect, yesn't stand a chance to win any but { want the doctors to luok la One mother said that the mplete physical examination of her hild would be undred dollars Sto her, A woman who has to work hard to take care uf her children gave up two days’ work to attend the lec: tures Kiven here, “While there were a few mothers of very large families who entered thelr youngest Idren—and thus showed that th n't think themselves too old to learn—we had a large number of women come to us with their first bables, They were pathetically tgnor- ant and trustful, One mother of a first born said to me, ‘There is so h 1 don't know, but if you, will only teach me! 1 am waiting to learn and 1 wit! do exactly as you say. It isn't that 1 Gren. I have personally discov. | ‘n't care for my baby, but ni hi Little Mot Ald Anpoctation are . 0 one has eagerly anticipating a summons to the ot Lepsid sae mothers ave perk me how to take care of him,’ final test for the mont perfect young-} Feed mi jously everything IGN BORN WOMEN iN asters, Thin test, in which all the hgi-| that The Bvening World has had NEED OF ADVICE : score babies will be critically re-exam- y on the subject of infant “Also many foreign born’ ined, will probably take place at No. 26 ae while they have inherited oem Becond avenue: toward the end of thir r really, the mothers are more 'n-| amount wf bate t ed a certain week, And, of course, no mother ix | terested in learning what to do for ther: | how: to hemes yee? Ho NOt understand going to let her perfect or almost-per- | bables than in seeing the bablos win | They ey eg Pu ut an America ol et with a dif- jou —— ee Home Dressmaking from Origi 9g ginal Desig ESCRIPTION. ars _— unpgn SLteve Sere ry Although not po extraordinary cut, essing any unique or this frock has an undentable charm in the unusual fulness of the simple waist and the graceful draping of the ribbon on sort taffeta, which, as a fall material 8 to be very popular fo: ae for afternoon ‘x delightfully used in combination with foulard silk or satin, to develop thin frock, A navy blue foulard, having ® polka dot of Copenhagen blue, ts a Very 00d suggestion for the skirt, with @ waist and tunic blue taffeta, part of Copenhagen With narrow plaitings of the skirt materia! to finish the double sleeve effect and the nook, inside a wider frill of white net, also the edge 1of the tunic, the upper portion is brought into harmony with the skirt, | The tunic, opening panel distance down the back, Ad of the front, reverses the usual and gives a touch of Individuality, easy to achieve, The | Plainness of the closed front, which [might be undesirable in effect, in ree Heved by a wide bow of navy blue Velvet ribbon, the ends of which drop in \ drapery at th des to be caught up under the belt at the centre back, tintsh- ine In one or two loops, which serve as 1 trimming to the watat. ‘The shirt {s plaln, and could be of two or three pieces, so that it may happen that one of last year's skirte will be brought out to serve its end tn a little frock of this xort, when new material in 4 different color, can be got for a walet and tunie, With the beautiful pieces of silks on the remnant tables these days it should be not only an easy task but one which will be a saving to the purse ins Crepe de chine could be used of soft taffeta, when charmeuse or satin would combine nicely for a skirt, and the idea of the plain and figured goods could be reversed {f pre- ferred. Although thix style is beautiful for one J with slender hips, one with large hips [will find it becoming If the sash drapery naged In the way 1 have shown, [s The sash, by the way, could be made OT The skirt material, when a less dressy HELPED GREATLY IN THE CARE OF HER CHILD. “One mother who brought us baby was one of our own ‘ttle mothers’ a few years ago. She said our lasnea tn laundry work and sewing and AFTER a prolonged drought Miséour! farmers saw @ big black cloud and shoppers. | rejoiced, but It was cloud of feveral inches below the waist line in the back, IT 18 ILLEGAL in France to remove water from the ocean, lest it be used for making bread, thereby evading the tax levied on salt. AFTER TRAINING among gtia monsters in the Grand Canon for a few weeks, T. BR. is on his way home to jump into New York City politica, PRACE FLAG of The Hague Congress has seven stripes, All the colors of the Neat but gaudy. rainbow, merging into white. “ONE CHICKEN!” shouted @ waiter in a Broadway lunch room, ordering ndwich, Young woman in a pink shadow gown just passing out a chicken thought he referred to her and there was a “M'CALL HIGHBALL” conalsts of a glasa of ginger ale into which Is squeezed the juice of an orange. returaed to him from Europe. Reformed Church yesterday. he got it at tennis. CAMDEN ARTIST has just recovered a wonderful miniature landscape he painted on a grain of corn forty years ago and lost soon after. THE REV. DR. BROUGHTON of London preached in the Madison avenue He had a black eye and told his congregation lot. water it was of ,Teeth Decay NEW STYLE BUSTLE jyst introduced in Parts consists of bunching drapery | calls for something more than ihe use of a highly perfumed powder or paste that is pleasant to the taste and that’s all. A Mouth Wash is necessary. One that is a germicide of Unusual Strength. “ODOL" is « mouth wash and in- comparabl. dorsed by the leading authorities of where it has reigned su- } preme for twenty years. in to it drops in warm PRICE, 50 CENTS At all Draggie partment Stor leis en- Europe, jing and Night keeping accounts had helped her great- ly In the care of her chi 1 —— bit of @ baby, only six weeks old. Pig first trip out of the house was to je registration rooms. Lots of ‘little mothers” have entered their small charges, 4 Cdl ste vel 4 0 5 appeared on Quturdsy carrying his lic-| than that of ploking the pockets of the tee caughter, Rebecca. Registration homelons, destitute outcasts that sleep continues through thie week, from @ tojon the ben in Washington Square oP. M. ‘ peu be para to discover, William re entries at Greenwich | Murphy an jomas Moran, two youths House, Nov 20 Jones atreet, brought the; arraigned in Jefferson Market Police Heute of babies in thie contest well| Court to-day by Patrolman Edward Cas- up toward six hundred. ation sidy of the Mercer Street station, were this contest will continue untls Gept. 1,/ accuse! of this mean form of theft. inclusive, Cassidy sald he watched them for more — than half an hour early to-day and saw SPEED ON THE B. R. T. them search the clothing of half a dozen "Than ROBBERS OF PARK SLEEPERS ‘Twe Youths Get 96 Cente and Siz Mo je im Jail, An occupation offering smaller returns awarded as soon as possible.” Out of even bablen entered Saturday at Warren Goddard House, No. 24 East ‘Thirty-fourth street, there were six dif- ferent nationalities represented—Amert- can, Belgian, Hebrew, Austrian, Swed- inh and Irish, Lithuanians, Hungarians, French, Germans and acores of Italians have already been entered in this con- tent. Although only children under two aro admitted, the registration number has reached 116, “I have found It necessary to ask for the date of the baby's birth,” sald Miss Sarah Clapp, who is in chi of the contest. “The mothers are so anxious to enter their babies that they will call them @ month or two younger than they really are. We decided on the two- year limit because then the prize-win- “express” atrived at Sheepshe: ning bables will get more money and]: $39 o'clock and unloaded also children are rather more likely to] pridge at 9.05 o'clock, the “expr Perish through the {gnorance of the} taking Just six minutes longer than the mothers during the first twenty-four| scheduled time of a local TI months than later."* delay LN slid es One mother has brought In two chil-[!ns stopped at Churel dren unedr two, a boy of aixteen months| &, local to. run, ahead. and, agin, with @ beautiful, long name, Leopold! 1 5 local the right of way. It ts generally Florent Eugene Van de Merlon, and understood that when the Public Ser- his three montha’ old ter, Mary Clem-' yice Commissioners fade Brooklyn ence. Another mother entered @ tiny they ride !n automobi A LOW 2 FOR 25CTS, jeepers. Their combined loot amounted to jess than twenty-five cents, Magis- trate Barlow sent them to the work- house, each to serve five months and twenty-nine days, nei CITY ACCEPTS FOUNTAIN. | 1 Will Be Erected in Morningside Park. k The Munteipal Art Commission has voted to approve the bronz@ fountain Presented to the National Highways time axo to be “Joke Express” Takes Lo the Local Trains. Five hundred tmprisoned commuters fumed and raved on a B. R. T. “ox- |presa” train this morning, bound from Brighton to Manhattan. Locked in the forced to their own two local right of way. Ths fountain will Lory of the late It was the desire of M n that pi tne fountain sho: to the ine {children of the City of New York ani! ‘ it will be known as the Seligman Foun- to allow tamale, how so keep baby Beal, tn, be r oe, Carle & 801 Tea atk Waser at New vou By and James McCreary & Co. | Midsummer Prices ‘. GOWNS AND SUITS TO ORDER. Cea San. Sb thee a ae Beek How, When and Where to Enter Your Baby For the Big Prize Contest Now Under Way CONTEST AT LITTLE MOTHERS’ ALD ASSOCIATION, No, 288 Second Qvenue, for children between three months and five yeare, living in district from Seventh to Twenty-eighth street and Fifth avenue to East hives. Registrations closed Aug. 12 Judging of the bables began Monday, Aug. 6 For this contest The Evening World offers $100 in prises, CONTEST AT GREENWICH HOUSE, No. 36 Jones street, opened for registration of entrants Monday, Aug. 11, and will continue to Monday, Sept. 1 taclusive, Contest boundaries from North River and Fourteenth street east to Fifth avenue, to Washington Square, to Broadway, to Canal street, te North River. Age limit, same as above For this contest The Evening World offers $60 in money prises and Greenwich House 690. Registration centres, No, 78 Ninth avenue, from 9 to 13 A. M., and No. 28 Jones street, 2 to P.M. CONTEST AT WARREN GODDARD HOUSE, No, %8 East Thirty-fourth street, opened for registration of entrants Monday, Aug. 1, and will continue to Monday, Sept. 1, inolusive, Age limit from three months to two years. Contest boundaries from East Twenty-eighth to East Sixty-third street, be- tween Fifth avenue and East River, Registration hapra daily except Sundays from 2 to 4 P. M. The Evening World offers 060 in money prises. CONTEST AT HARTLEY HOUSE, No. 413 West Forty-sixth street. Age Mmit, three months to five years, Boundaries, Forty-second to Fifty-ninth street, Fifth avenue to North River, Registration places, No. 418 West Forty- sixth atreet, No. 610 Weat Forty-seventh street and No. 652 West Fifty-third street. Dates of registration at the three centres, Aug. % to Aug. ®, both inclu- sive, from 2 to 4P, M. Evening World prizes, $0 in money. CONTEST AT LITTLE ITALY HOUSE, No. 14 Union atreet, Brooklyn. Age limit, same og above. Boundaries, Joralemon street, Fulton street, Nev- ina to Douglas, to Gowanus Canal, New York Bay and Kast River. Registra- tion date, Aug, 21 to Sept. 1, inclusive, from 3 to 4 P. M. each day, except Sat- urday and Sunday. Judging, Sept. 1 Evening World prises, 00. CONTESTS OF THE CHELSEA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION— for entrants closed July Batrants will be judged in Oc- to be announced late: For each of these three contests The Bvening World offers @ tn mosey orises. Crepe de Chine Gowns for house or street wear, Also Tailored Suits in new Fall Fabrics. 57.50 Announcement Shc ving of the first shipment of Imported Models for the Fall season. Orders for copies will be taken, until September Ist, at Mid- summer Prices. Thirty-fourth Street 10 to 16 MINUTES FROM ANYWHERE effect, but fully as pretty, obtained. would be| centre back to relieve the plainuess. Deer Fashion Editor: Will you suggest « pretty way to use —— ANSWERS TO QUERIES. some eighteen-inch lace flouncing for i @ dance dress? Something different Dear Fashion Raitor: ‘ from the ordinary fichu etyle for the 1 am asking your advice concerning) waist, Am eighteen years of age, the sort of #port coat 1 should mee iE | wetghing 104 pounds. % have one yard would like to have one which I could | of bead banding, one inch wide. I could Wear in the winter, and think you can|yge to trim with. Thanking you. ‘At 149th St. Entrance of Subway or Elevated suggest a atyle and material. Am thirty MISS MABEL C. yeara of age, have light hair, blue eyes ‘he foundation waist coula be and medium complexion, Am a little] mage of fimo net with the rer Le anata | seman ometics ee | This Roomful of Furniture ‘A rough black wool material with | part and continuing under the gir- is 29 98 & fine white stripe would be prac- ie t0 form @ short raffle below. No Mail Orders. e tioal. For wear just now it could be Under the scalloped edges of the trimmed with large, round, white lace om the waist you could lay your a ball buttons which in the winter | beaded banding, while from the could be replaced with large black Shae of We Nene Jom; sonne ash ones, Made with the sleeve neck could drop & very equare Pern eh acy and finished collar of the lace. From under the tiny rufle on the skirt let fall a @ very deep cuff on the crosswise, bp ay ae i iy patch pockets could be cut om the width, A sash of flowered ribbon croswise, also the belt. Mowever, | Conia arop ends from the bow is the as probably the coat would become | centre fromt, which pase under the iter without « belt you could first tiny ruffle and tie Mm the back, hav ted plait up the low down. The “blues"”—anzlety—sleeplessness—and warnings of tress are sent by the nerves like flying messengers tl roughest limbs. Such feelings may or may not be accompanied headache or bearing down. 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